cinnabar

1. 1.

   of a vivid red to reddish-orange color

   SynonymsvermilionvermillionChinese-red

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of cinnabar

plural

cinnabars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cinnabar

What does cinnabar mean?

cinnabar means "a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cinnabar?

cinnabar has 3 syllables: cin-na-bar. The stress falls on "cin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪnəˌbɑɹ/.

What is another word for cinnabar?

Close synonyms include cinnabar moth, Callimorpha jacobeae, vermilion, vermillion, Chinese-red. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cinnabar a common word?

cinnabar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cinnabar?

10 words rhyme with cinnabar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.